Cambodia

Community Description
Kandieng High School is located in the middle of the village on the riverfront, 12 km away from the provincial capital. The school consists of 5 large buildings, with approximately 1440 students, grades 7-12, and 60 teachers.

The school has a good attendance rate throughout the academic year as well as off season, because students attend summer school.

The school lacks a clean and reliable water source for the students who come to campus each day, the 20 students who live on campus, 6 female bathrooms and 12 on-site food vendors.

Currently, students walk with buckets to a nearby pond to refill the bathrooms daily. The food vendors use the water from the pond, as well, to wash dishes and utensils.

The boys who live on the school premises wash their clothes with pond water, bathe in pond water, and cook with pond water. Due to constant and heavy usage, the pond dries up prior to the dry season.

The school has an underground water pump, but it has been broken since 2003. There is also a 75 meter deep well, but it is dry and empty.

Project Description
This project will connect the village’s main clean water supply, which runs past the school, to 6 outlets on the school premises. The outlets are located around the main buildings of the school, and are all easily accessible to the bathrooms.

Project funds will be used to purchase piping, fittings, and other materials.

The labor for digging, laying pipes and installation will be contributed by a small group of male teachers and students.

Project Impact
1440 students who live both on and off campus, 60 faculty and staff, and various on-site food vendors will benefit from the project. In addition, the water supply will be used by 2 families who live in the area surrounding the school.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Diana Wong

Comments
This project will alleviate the tremendous problem of having to hand-carry water onto the school campus to be used for drinking, cleaning, and hygiene. It provides a source of safe water to replace the water from the pond, which is often polluted or nonexistent.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$50.00

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Dollar Amount Needed
$450.00

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.

Community Description
Daunkeo Town is the provincial capital of Takeo Province, which is one of the more densely populated provinces in Cambodia. The town is about 2 hours south of Phnom Penh.

The town is smaller and more easy-going than some of the bigger provincial towns in Cambodia. It is situated next to a lake so there is a constant supply of water which the town treats and distributes though pipes to the developed areas of the town.

There are various NGOs based in the town, many of which conduct their work in the more rural areas of the province.

The Provincial Teacher Training Center is where teacher trainees from all of Takeo province must study in order to become a primary school teacher. Entry is very competitive and determined by an exam. Trainees live at the training center and study methodology and the subjects for two years. The trainees live at the school free of cost.

There are two two-story dorms on campus, one for the men and one for the women. In the women's dorm, about two hundred trainees live together among eight medium-sized rooms. Generally, the women sleep three people to a full-sized bed. Obviously, space is limited. With so many women living densely together, water is also limited.

There are two bathrooms in the building, one on the bottom floor and one on the top floor. They serve not only the residents, but also the staff and guests, as there are no bathroom facilities attached to the office or the classrooms.

Each bathroom has a large concrete container to hold water. There are five toilet stalls in each bathroom. The water in the concrete container is used for flushing the toilets, cleaning the bathrooms, taking showers, doing laundry, and for cooking.

There is a faucet connected to the town's water supply in the lower bathroom. Unfortunately, the water supply is not reliable. Sometimes the water comes out, but at other times there is no water. Despite this irregular service, the school currently spends about $250 per month for water.

The upper bathroom is not connected. So the women must carry water from the lower bathroom to the upper bathroom.

Project Description
This project is to install a rainwater catchment system at the school. Water will be collected from the roof of the women’s dormitory, and directed to the large concrete water containers in the two bathrooms.

Project funds will be used to purchase materials, including the zinc gutters, piping, and hardware, and to pay for skilled labor to do the construction.

Project Impact
About 200 female students currently living in the dormitory, plus 30 teachers and office staff, will benefit from the project. In addition, guests who visit the training center for workshops and meetings will also be affected by the project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Julie Kierski

Comments
This project will provide water to alleviate the critical sanitation problem at the school. The addition of the rain water supply system will assure that the trainees have access to enough water.

In addition to having a more reliable supply of water, the school will be able to substantially reduce the amount it pays for the public water. This will free up funds to be used for other crucial needs of the training center.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Julie Kierski of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Julie and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Cambodia.

Community Description
Thmar Puok District town is located in the northwest Province of Banteay Meanchey 50 kilometers north of the Provincial Capital of Serei Sophon.

One of the biggest concerns for people in Thmar Puok is the shortage of water. In the dry season, sanitation decreases because of the lack of available water in the area.

The Thmar Puok District Referral Hospital is the biggest health facility in a 40 kilometer radius. It has two wells for use by the staff and patients, but neither of them is currently functioning.

Project Description
This project is to repair the two wells at the hospital.

The work will be performed by local technicians, and completed before the start of the rainy season.

Project Impact
The hospital serves both the Thmar Puok and Sway Chek districts, with a combined population of 111,197 people who will benefit from the project. There are 147 villages within these districts. There are 49 staff members within the hospital.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Kelsey Hedrick

Comments
This project by Peace Corps Volunteer Kelsey Hedrick follows upon her successful completion of the Thmar Puok Bathroom Project – Cambodia.

This is a vital project that must be done at once so that hygiene and sanitation can be restored within the hospital.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded through the generosity of Burke Tran, of San Francisco, California, USA.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Kelsey Hedrick of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Kelsey and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Cambodia.

Community Description
Boribo district is a small district town in the Kampong Chhnang province of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It is located about 120 kilometers, or 2.5 hours northwest of Phnom Pehn city, and is comprised of nine communes.

Boribo has a fairly well known market, known as Ponley Psah, a health center facility, and a large high school with over 3,000 students. Situated about 10 kilometers from “The Great Lake” or Tonle Sap, most families subsist on a diet of rice, vegetables, and fish.

Because of the location to the Tonle Sap, many people are able to generate income by working as fishermen. However, most residents in Boribo, like the rest of the country, live as subsistence rice farmers.

The health facilities in Boribo include a hospital, health center, and the “Operational District” office. The operational district oversees all the administration that goes on in the eight surrounding commune health centers.

The hospital, which opened in January 2010, sees over 100 patients a month and births over 200 babies a month. Unfortunately, the hospital is lacking doctors, surgical tools, and an ambulance.

The health center, where community members are able to come in for consultation and treatment of diarrhea, dehydration, and vaccinations sees over 1,000 patients per month.

The Boribo health center has an adequate supply of fresh water, but has no treatment facility to supply drinking water to patients. A rain water tank, which was built in 1968, holds enough fresh water year round and is hooked up by PVC pipes to the health center and hospital buildings.

Project Description
This project is to build a water supply and filtration system to provide safe water to the hospital and health center. Two drinking water stations will be built, one outside the maternity ward and the other outside the health center.

The hospital and health center will purchase two water filters from the NGO Hagar at a subsidized rate. Project funds will be used to purchase materials for the project, and the work will be done by a local NGO, REA (Rural Education Association).

Project Impact
This project will benefit 1,200 hospital patients, 2,400 new babies and their families and 12,000 health center patients per year. In addition, 15 surrounding families who do not have access to water during the dry season will be served.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Keiko Valente

Comments
This is a critically-needed high-impact project that builds on the existing infrastructure. With the water tank in place, all that is needed is to purify the water and install and connect drinking water stations in appropriate locations.

This is the second project of Peace Corps Volunteer Keiko Valente. To read about her first, the Kraubau Well Project – Cambodia, CLICK HERE.

Dollar Amount of Project
$493.00

Donations Collected to Date
$493.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Keiko Valente of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Keiko and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Cambodia.

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.